kangaroo

• kangooroo, kanguroo, kanguru (obsolete)

Borrowed from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru (“eastern grey kangaroo”). Despite a popular misconception, the Guugu Yimidhirr term does not mean "I don't know".

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹʉː/, [ˌkʰæŋ.ɡəˈɹʊ̈ʉ̯]
• (General American)
  • (without æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˌkæŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/, [ˌkʰæŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯]

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  • (æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˌkeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/, [ˌkʰeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯]; /ˌkɛ̃ŋ.ɡəˈɹuː/, [ˌkɛ̃ŋ.ɡəˈɹʊu̯]
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋɡ(ə)ru/, /kəŋˈɡɑru/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ga‧roo

kangaroo (plural kangaroos)

2. A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia and New Guinea. [from 18th c.]
   • 1770 August 4, James Cook, Journal:

     Besides the Animals which I have before mentioned, called by the Natives Kangooroo, or Kanguru […].

   • 1814, Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis:

     In the woods are the kanguroo, the emu or cassowary, paroquets, and a variety of small birds […].

   • 2015 September 14, Oliver Milman, “California set to ban kangaroo imports despite lobbying efforts by Australia”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 March 2021:

     A lobbying effort by the Australian government to continue the trade of kangaroo skins and meat to California has failed, with the US state set to impose a ban on the import of the animal. […] Australia’s states and territories oversee management of kangaroos and wallabies but the federal government is involved in exports.

3. (Canada, attributive) A hooded jacket with a front pocket, usually of fleece material, a kangaroo jacket.

• (Macropodidae): macropod, roo
• (jacket): bunny hug, hoodie, kangaroo jacket

kangaroo (third-person singular simple present kangaroos, present participle kangarooing, simple past and past participle kangarooed)

1. To practice kangaroo care on an infant; to hold a premature infant against the skin.
2. (intransitive) To hunt kangaroo.
3. (intransitive) To move like a kangaroo.

kangaroo (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Australia.
   • 2005, Year Book Australia: 2006, Aust. Bureau of Statistics, page 708:

     The rapid growth in Kangaroo bond issues in the Australian market has given rise to an interest in the nature, trend and impact of this type of bond on Australia's international investment statistics. While Kangaroo bonds have been issued for a ...

   • 2017, Jeff Madura, CHANDRASEKHAR & MADURA KRISHNAMURTI (JEFF & HOQUE, ARIFUL.), Ariful Hoque, International Financial Management with Student Resource Access 12 Months, Cengage AU (→ISBN), page 667:

     Furthermore, the issuers access the kangaroo bond market in order to diversify their funding sources. ... driven by factors such as the relative cost of issuance, including hedging costs and the liquidity of underlying derivative and bond markets.

   • 2018, Ben Hunt, Chris Terry, Financial Institutions and Markets, Cengage AU, →ISBN, page 206:

     Non-resident. bonds. Bonds issued in the Australian market by non-resident entities are known as kangaroo bonds. Figure 8.6 shows that kangaroo bonds represent approximately one-third of non-government bonds outstanding, making them ...

   • 2009, W. Peng, C. Shu, Currency Internationalization: Global Experiences and Implications for the Renminbi, Springer, →ISBN, page 62:

     3.1.2 The Australian dollar in the global bond market An internationalized currency also serves non-residents as a store of value ... borrowers issuing Australian dollar bonds in the domestic market (foreign bonds known as ' kangaroo bonds').

   • 1998, Business Review Weekly: BRW:

     The market is comparatively liquid and the bonds are free of withholding tax if the funds are used overseas. The Commonwealth Bank has largely pioneered the market. It led the first kangaroo issue, a $150million offering by the (South) Korea  ...

   • 2010, Susan Black, Anella Munro, Why Issue Bonds Offshore?:

     Some onshore markets have competed more successfully than others. Issuance in the Kangaroo bond market (Australian dollar bonds issued onshore by non- residents) soared over the 2002–06 period due to a combination of factors. While a ...

2. (finance, investments) Characterized by rapidly jumping prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices are unstable in contrast to bear and bull markets.

• R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN
• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “kangaroo”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Borrowed from English kangaroo.

kangaroo m (genitive singular kangaroo, plural kangarooghyn)

1. kangaroo